THE PLAYERS Declan O’Reilly ~ King Lear: Duke of Albany | Shakespeare’s Rebel: St. Lawrence Declan makes his Bard debut this season. Recent credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Shadow Theatre/Sage Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Calgary); The Secret Garden (Theatre New Brunswick); Emily…A Musical, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival); Jacob 2-2: First Spy Case (YPT Toronto); Colors in the Storm (Roxy Theatre); Barber of Seville (Persephone Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Phoenix Theatre); Yours ‘Til The Moon Falls Down (Lunchbox Theatre); and April in Peril, Blackpool and Parrish (Shadow Theatre). He is a graduate from the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta and a founding member of Edmonton’s Freewill Players Shakespeare Company. Dawn Petten ~ The Comedy of Errors: Dromio of Ephesus | Love’s Labour’s Lost: Jaquenetta This is Dawn’s third season at Bard. Previously she performed in Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, and The Merchant of Venice. Since graduating from UBC’s BFA Acting program, Dawn has acted in over 50 productions. Recent theatre credits include Aprés Moi (Ruby Slippers); East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement/Cultch); and Our Town (osimous Theatre). Favourites over the years: Tear the Curtain!, Studies in Motion (Electric Company); Unity, 1918 (Touchstone); A Doll’s House (Chemainus Theatre Festival); and playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Caravan Farm Theatre). Dawn is a multiple Jessie Richardson Award nominee and winner. Andrea Rankin ~ King Lear: Cordelia | Shakespeare’s Rebel: Sarah Andrea is thrilled to be performing at Bard on the Beach for the first time. Favourite credits include A Christmas Carol, Make Mine Love (The Citadel Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (SBTB/Theatre Calgary); King Lear (Theatre Calgary); Othello (The Shakespeare Company); Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth (Edmonton Opera); The Little Red Wagon (Opera NUOVA); MOTE (Blarney Productions); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Pains of Youth, Blood Wedding (Studio Theatre); Pushed, (Nextfest); Spring Awakening: The Musical, (Strathcona Theatre); and voice acting on the video game Mass Effect 3 for EA Games. Andrea holds a BFA in Acting (with Distinction) from the University of Alberta. Nathan Schmidt ~ King Lear: Edgar | Shakespeare’s Rebel: Lord Sandys This is Nathan’s first year at Bard. Acting credits include Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); The Huron Bride (Vertigo); Underneath the Lintel, The Quarrel, My Name is Asher Lev (Pacific Theatre); The Sound of Music, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chemainus); and Doubt, Freud’s Last Session, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jake and the Kid, Damien, Oliver, The Good Doctor, The Kite (Rosebud). Fight Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Richard III (Shakespeare Company). He has trained with Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts and is currently the Head of Acting at Rosebud School of the Arts. Colleen Wheeler ~ King Lear : Goneril | Shakespeare’s Rebel: Queen Elizabeth This is Colleen’s twelfth season with Bard on the Beach. Favourite roles include Elizabeth in Elizabeth Rex, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Chorus in Henry V, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, Stephana in The Tempest, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Gertrude in Hamlet. Other recent theatre: Since You Left Us (Presentation House); Boeing-Boeing (Arts Club); Initiation Trilogy (Electric Company); and A Beautiful View (Ruby Slippers). Recent TV/film: Bridal Wave (Hallmark), Motive (ABC), Once Upon a Time (ABC), Warriors (Pilot Episode), and The Tall Man (Feature). Colleen is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA (Acting) Program, and the recipient of six Jessie Richardson Awards.
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